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UNITED STATES lPATENT OFFICE.

J. HS. CANNON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF,

ANDREW J. CUTLER, AND ELIAS .i A FRAME FoP. Pl

M. HANOVER, OF SAME PLACE.'

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,255, dated June 21, 1864.

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, J. S. CANNON, of New Haven,in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Picture-Frames; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure a front view; Fig. 2, a side view set up; Fig. 3, a side view as hung up; Figs. 4 and 5, cross-sections. Figs. 6 and 8 show the manner of forming the angles, and in Fig. 7 the back.

Similar letters indicate like parts.

My invention relates to an improvement in the construction of picture frames, and, though applicable toall sizes of frames, is more specially designed for the pictures commonly called cmtcs-de-rz'sies, 7 audit consists, first, in constructing the frame from a single strip of metal, cutting three ot' the angles so that they may be bent, and soldering the fourth or last, or securing it in some equivalent manner; second, in attaching a link to the back in such manner that it may be used either for a support to the frame when standing up, or to hang the frame so that it makes no difference which side up the picture is placed in the frame the link or support will be right 5 third, in forminga recessed back from a single piece of metal for the purpose of allowing the insertion of raised pictures, or anything which requires a space between the back and glass. A

To more fully illustrate my invention, I will proceed to describe it in connection with the accompanying drawings.

A is the frame, made from a thin strip of metal rolled or drawn into any desired form for the face of the frame and turned over to form the edge. From the face of the frame I cut out an angular piece, as see Fig. 6, for the three angles--say, 1, 2, 3.V For the fourth or last angle, 4, I simply cut oft' the two ends at the proper angle, (forty-five degrees for a square frame.) I then bend the several angles, as seen in red, Fig. 6, and solder or otherwise secure the two ends at the angle 4. I then solder onto each of the two sides another piece of metal c, (see Figs. 4 and 5,) to hold the glass and back in the frame. 0r, if I please, the said pieces a may be formed on the frame by simply bending the metal, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. But for such frames as are to be gilt or plated it is cheaper to solder pieces of tin to the frame than to form them from the same metal. This completes the frame.

For an ordinary picture I form the back from a single piece of sheet metal, C, Figs. 1, 5, and 7, and hang a wire link or loop, D, to the back, as clearly shown in Fig. 7. The said link may be turned in either direction, as see in red and black, Fig. 7.

Place the glass B in the frame, as seen in Figs. 4 and 5, lay the picture upon the glass, and slip the back C under the pieces c, as see in Figs. 5, and the whole is secured. If desired to support the frame as to rest upon atable, turn the link D down, as see Fig. 2; or, if to hang, turn the link up, as in Fig. 5; or, if to lie down, turn the link down against the back.

For a raised picture, or such as requires a recessed frame, such as shown in Fig. 4, I form the recess in the following manner: I take a single strip of metal, d, bent or drawn into theform shown in section Fig. 4, and cut out the angles, as see Fig. 8, upon the dat surfaces, leaving the perpendicular side uncut. I then bind at the cut angles, as denoted in red, Fig. 8, and join the fourth angle, as before described, for uniting the frame. p

This style of frame requires amat, which place upon the glass, as before described, for the picture. Slip the recessed frame into the principal frame, as see Fig. 4 5 then place the picture or whatever it may be into the recess and slip the back C into the place prepared for it, as in Fig. 4, and substantiallylas before described, and shown in Fig. 5. By these arrangements a neat, durable, and sub stantial frame is produced, and one which may be readily adjusted to the wall or table substantially in the manner described, to serve or to any desired position, an impossibility in the double purpose herein set forth.

the common construction of frames.

Therefore, having fully described my invention, I do not broadly claim a metallic pictureframe constructed from one piece; but

What I do claim as of my invention is- 1. Constructing a picture-frame from asingle strip of metal when the angles are formed in the manner substantially as described.

2. The combination of a link or loop with the back of a picture-frame, when arranged J. S. CANNON.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, RUFUs SANFORD.

3. A recessed back constructed in the man1 

